You need to be tough to be a boxer <br />it helps to have a granite like chin <br />be able to move and bob and weave <br />and get up off the canvas to win. <br />Hours and hours of sparring at the gym <br />cauliflower ears and a nose that bends <br />sit-ups, press-ups, and punching the bags, <br />blood, sweat, and tears are his closest friends. <br />The boxer hears the noise of the crowd <br />screaming, shouting, baying for blood, <br />but he battles on ignoring his pain <br />ahead on points and fighting real good. <br />Remember all of what the trainer has said <br />stay on your feet and don't go down <br />but his strength is going can he go on? <br />he must if he wants to win that crown. <br />Cut and bloodied and out on his feet <br />he holds on to the end of the fight <br />the referee walks over and raises his arm <br />now a new champion reigns supreme tonight!<br /><br />Kevin Halls<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-pugilist/
